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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.

us. Ignorance may struggle to enlightenment;out of corruption may come the incorruptible.God speed that day. Every trueman in the South will pray for it and workfor it. Through education the negro mustbe led to know, and through sympathy toconfess, that his interests and the interests ofthe people of the South are identical. Themen who from afar off view this subjectthrough the cold eye of speculation, or see itdistorted through partisan glasses, insist that,directly or indirectly, the negro race will beput in control of the affairs of the South.We have no fear of this. Already we areattaching to us the best element of thatrace. As we proceed our alliance willbroaden. External pressure but irritates andimpedes. Those who would put the negrorace in supremacy would work against adivine and infallible decree, for the white racecan never submit to its domination, becausethe white race is the superior race.This is the declaration of no new truth; ithas abided forever in the marrow of our bonesand shall run forever with the blood thatfeeds Anglo-Saxon hearts. In political compliancethe South has evaded the truth andmen have drifted from their convictions. Butwe cannot escape this issue; it faces us whereeverwe turn. It is an issue that has beenand will be. The races and tribes of earthare of divine origin. Behind the laws of manand the decrees of war stands the law of God.What God hath separated let no man join together.The Indian, the Malay, the negro,the Caucasian, these types stand as markersof God's will. Let not man tinker with thework of the Almighty. Unity of civilization,no more than unity of faith, will never bewitnessed on earth. No race has risen orwill rise above its ordained place. Here isthe pivotal fact of this great matter: Two

races are made equal in law and in politicalrights, between whom the caste of race hasset an impassable gulf. This gulf is bridgedby a statute and the races are urged to crossthereon. This cannot be. The fiat of theAlmighty has gone forth, and in eighteencenturies of history it is written. We wouldescape this issue if we could. From thedepth of its soul the South invokes fromheaven " peace on earth and good will toman." She would not if she could cast thisrace back into the condition from which wedaily thank God it was raised. She wouldnot deny its smallest or abridge its fullestprivilege. Not to lift this burden foreverfrom her people would she do the least ofthese things. She must walk through thevalley of the shadow, for God has so ordained.But he has ordained that she shall walk inthat integrity of race that, created in His wisdom,has been perpetuated in His strength.Standing in the presence of this multitude,sobered with the responsibility of the messageI deliver to the young men of the South,I declare that the truth above all others to beworn unsullied and sacred in your hearts, tobe surrendered to no force, sold at no price,compromised in no necessity, but cherishedand defended as the covenant of your prosperity,and the pledge of peace to your childreni,is that the white race can never submitto the direct or indirect domination of therace that insolent tinkers with divine decreewould put above us, but that the white racemust and will control the South.It is a race issue at last. Let us come tothis point, and stand here. Here the air ispure and the light is clear, and here honorand peace abide. Juggling and evasion deceivesnot a man. Compromise and subserviencehas carried not a point. There is nota white man North or South who does nto